It had taken our species millions of years to build an airplane that flew like a bird, millions of years for us to go from lumbering around caves to hovering above them. Amazingly, however, once we had learned exactly how airplanes flew, it took us only fifty years to go from soaring above Kitty Hawk to soaring into space.“‘Five Equations that Changed The World’, by Dr. Michael Guillen, pg 117”

Dream10x.com’s goal this year, in 2025, is to read 52 books in 52 weeks and to provide five key takeaways from each book.

Five Key Takeaways

• Sir Isaac Newton not only discovered the Calculus (along with Leibniz?), he also discovered the universal law of gravity and explained how centrifugal force keeps the moon in Earth’s orbit.
• Michael Faraday discovered that disturbing a magnetic field with a wire generated electricity. This discovery led to modern day electrical generators.
• Rudolf Clausius proposed the idea that the universe is ultimately dying, with all energy eventually coming to rest, resulting in a cold, lifeless blob. Entropy is the grand casino of the universe.
• Daniel Bernoulli discovered the relationship between the speed of a fluid in a tube to pressure. He discovered that a glass tube inserted into a vein could measure blood pressure. He also ultimately helped account for the dynamics of flight.
• Albert Einstein’s famous equation, E=MC², describes the relationship between mass and energy, with implications about the speed of light and mass.

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